A Food Combining Chart for Complete & Efficient Digestion

This "Common Sense" chart will show you how fresh, vital foods properly
combined will promote optimum digestion, energize & strengthen your body.

POOR

Non-Starchy Vegetables
(high water content foods)

EXCELLENT

Proteins

(concentrated
foods)
* cheese
coconut
* eggs
* fish
* fowl
* meat
* milk
nuts (raw)
nut butters
olives
seeds
seed butters
* soy beans
* yogurt

asparagus
green beans
beet greens
kale
Fruit
broccoli
kohl-rabi
FRUIT IS THE HIGHEST
brussels sprouts
lettuce
WATER-CONTENT FOOD
cabbage
mushrooms
SWEET MELON
SUB ACID ACID
celery
parsley
apple
blackberries
bananas
banana melon
chard
spinach
apricot
grapefruit
dates
cantaloupe
chicory
sprouts
blueberries
kumquat
dried fruits
casaba
cherimoya
lemon
grapes (muscat crenshaw
collards
summer
squash
cherries
lime
& thompson)
Christmas melon
cucumber
sweet pepper
fresh figs
orange
persimmons
honey dew
grapes
pineapple
musk & persian
dandelion
tomatoes
huckleberries
plums (sour)
watermelon
egg plant
turnips
kiwi
Sweet
pomegranate
mangoes
fruits should melons should
raspberries
endive
water
cress
nectarine
be eaten after be eaten alone
sour apple
escarole
zucchini
papaya
other fruits but can be
strawberries
mixed with
acid or subacid fruits

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DO NOT
EAT FRUIT WITH ANY
OTHER FOOD

1.
2.
3.
4.

peach
pear
plums
(sweet)

corn
nut
olive
sesame
safflower
soy

acorn squash
banana squash
beans
breads
cereals
grains
hubbard squash
lentils
potatoes
pumpkin
split peas

GOOD

artichokes --- carrots --- corn

beets --- peas
D
cauliflower
GOO

avocado
butter
* butter sub
* cream
* lard

(concentrated
foods)

EXCELLENT

Mildly Starchy Vegetables

Fats & Oils

POOR

tangerines
tangeloes

Starchy
Carbohydrates

Irritants
--- use sparingly
garlic
leeks
onions

radishes
shallots
scallions

Protein & Carbohydrate foods should never be combined.

A leafy green salad can be eaten with any protein, carbohydrates, or fat.
Fats inhibit the digestion of protein. If you must have a fat with a protein, eat a mixed
vegetable salad. It will offset the inhibiting effect on digestion.
You should never drink liquids with or immediately following a meal.
* Listed for clarification but not recommended.

Food Combining is not mandatory. It may be useful for those with digestive problems.
Fruit alone may be too glycemic for those with carbohydrate sensitivity.
COMBINING FOODS FOR
MORE EFFICIENT DIGESTION
STARCHES

PROTEINS
Fish:
Crab
Lobster
Shrimp
Clam
Oyster
Scallop
Anchovy
Bass
Catfish
Codfish
Haddock
Perch / Mackerel
Red Snapper
Salmon / Lox
Sardine
Shark
Sole / Flounder / Halibut
Swordfish
Trout
Tuna
Turbot / Whitefish
Avocado

Macadamia
Peanut
Pecan / Pine
Pistachio
Poppy Seed
Pumpkin
Sesame
Sunflower
Walnut
Soybeans
Milk:
Casein
Cow
Goat
Yogurt
Sprouts
Cheese:
Brick
Cottage
Hard / Parmesan
Processed
Soft
Romano

Eggs:
Egg White
Egg Yolk
Fowl:
Chicken
Goose/Duck
Turkey
Meats:
Beef / Veal
Lamb / Mutton
Pork / Bacon / Ham
Deer / Venison
Rabbit
Coconut
Bean Curd: Tofu
Raw Nuts and Seeds:
Alfalfa
Almond
Anise Seed
Brazil
Cashew
Chestnut
Hazelnut / Filbert

Wheat
Amaranth
Barley
Brown Rice
White Rice
Buckwheat
Millet
Oats
Pasta, Breads
Pastries
Lima Beans
Triticale
Dry Beans / Peas:
Black-eyed Peas
Carob
Garbanzo
Kidney
Navy / Ninja
Pinto
Potatoes
Yams, Corn
Hubbard Squash
Pumpkin, Acorn

No

VEGETABLES
Non-Starchy

Leafy Green

Asparagus, Tomatoes
Bamboo Shoots, Okra
Green Beans
Broccoli, Bell Peppers
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage, Turnips
Celery Stalk, Chili Pepper
Cucumber, Beet Sugar
Eggplant, Corn Sugar
Spinach, Mushroom
Zucchini Squash
Crookneck Squash
Parsnips, Radish

Sprouts: Alfalfa
Mung, Lentil, Etc.
Chicory
Escarole
Beet Tops
Celery Greens
Swiss Chard
Dandelion Greens
Collard Greens
Turnip Greens
Endive
Kale
All Lettuces

Yes

Mildly Starchy

Artichokes
Beets
Carrots
Cauliflower
Chives

Yes

Garlic
Jicams
Leeks
Onion

Yes

Rutabaga
Shallots
Scallions
Peas
Water Chestnuts

Yes

No

No
No

Do not eat fruit with

any other food

Acid/Sub-Acid Fruit
Lemon, Lime, Orange,
Tangerine, Grapefruit,
All other Citrus, Kiwi,
Plum, Pineapple, Mango,
Papaya, All Berries, Nectarine,
Apples, Cherry, Grape, Pear,
Apricot, Peach

Nuts are OK with

these fruits

Sweet Fruit
Bananas
Currants,
Figs, Persimmons
Dates
Raisins, Prunes
Dried Fruits
Grapes (Thompson, Muscat)

Sweet fruits eaten

after other fruits is good

SONNEWALD NATURAL FOODS

(717) 225-3825

No

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Melons
Banana Melon
Musk Melon
Cantaloupe
Casaba
Persian
Crenshaw
Honeydew

Melons should
be eaten alone

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